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Thanks to the Congressional Republicans, Health Insurance Premiums Are Set to Climb Again

[1] The 2026 Enrollment Season, State Marketplace Network: https://statemarketplacenetwork.org/open-enrollment/. [2] Average proposed or approved 2027 individual ...
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Halloween Candy Prices Up 15%, Giving American Families a Jump Scare

New analysis from Groundwork Collaborative and the Century Foundation shows that candy prices are up over 15% under Trump since last year – four times overall inflation. With Halloween just around the ...
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ICYMI: On CNN, Groundwork’s Lindsay Owens Calls on Walmart to Relinquish Patents, Conduct Independent Audit of Their Pricing Tech

Owens calls out Walmart for saying “one thing to investors, one thing to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and another thing to consumers” Today, Lindsay Owens, President and CEO of Groundwork ...
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ICYMI: “When CEOs Brag About Price Hikes, She’s Listening”: Groundwork’s Lindsay Owens Featured in Bloomberg Businessweek

Today, Lindsay Owens, President and CEO of Groundwork Collaborative, was profiled in Bloomberg Businessweek for her leadership as an economic expert, consumer advocate, and corporate watchdog holding ...
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Groundwork CEO Lindsay Owens Fires Back After Walmart’s Baseless Attacks on Her for Exposing Its Pricing Playbook

Lindsay Owens, President and CEO of Groundwork Collaborative, released the following statement after Walmart’s Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs issued a public letter in response to Owens ...
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Liz Brown

Liz Brown is the Director of Legal Policy at Groundwork Collaborative. Prior to joining Groundwork, Liz worked as a Legal Fellow in Senator Elizabeth Warren’s office and as an editor at the Law and ...
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Walmart Watchdog: New Groundwork Analysis Exposes the Doublespeak Behind Walmart’s Pricing Playbook

The retailer that once offered “Everyday Low Prices” is building technology that can be used to track, probe, and squeeze shoppers New Report Released After Walmart’s C-Suite Directly Attacks ...
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The Walmart Watchtower: Patents Speak Louder Than Pledges

Walmart is building the technology to compile intimate profiles of shoppers and use that data to charge them accordingly. Walmart plans to install digital price tags in all U.S. stores by the end of ...
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Reinventing the McRipoff: Groundwork Analysis Exposes McDonald’s Doublespeak on AI Pricing

McDonald’s tells customers AI doesn’t set prices while boasting to investors that its pricing tools can “limit customer resistance” and “personalize with even greater precision.” Last week, a Reuters ...
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ICYMI: “Gouged” Author Lindsay Owens Joins MS NOW’s Morning Joe, Calls on Congress to Conduct Oversight of Corporations Ripping Off Consumers

Today, Lindsay Owens, President and CEO of the economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative, joined MS NOW’s Morning Joe to discuss her new book, Gouged: The End of a Fair Price–and What That Means ...
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Final Jobs Report Before Midterms is Brutal Reality Check for Trump’s Underperforming Economy

Today’s jobs report shows the economy added just 29,000 jobs in September, while July and August growth was revised down by a combined 60,000 jobs, with 10,000 jobs lost in July. Unemployment rose to ...